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Intro Slide
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NSTA Web Seminar II Investigating Safely
Professional Development When and Where You Want
It
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Flavio Mendez
Flavio MendezProgram Manager Symposia and Web
SeminarsNational Science Teachers Association
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• Agenda
• Introductions
• Tec-help info
• Web Seminar Tool Training with Examples
• Web Seminar Presentation
• Evaluation
• Chat with the presenters

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Lets do a poll question! Is this your first Web
Seminar?
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Al Byers Assistant Executive DirectorGovernment
Partnerships and e-Learning National Science
Teachers Association
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Jeff Layman
Jeff LaymanTec Support NSTA Institute703-312-938
4jlayman_at_nsta.org National Science Teachers
Association
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Where is everybody?Use a stamp to pinpoint your
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Where is everybody?Use a stamp to pinpoint your
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Teaching Science Safely
Part II The Kitchen Sink
A Seminar to Encourage Exciting, Inquiry-based
Science In an Environment of safety

• Terry Kwan
• Juliana Texley
• John Summers

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Poll Question
What is your area of responsibility?
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A Positive Approach to a Safer School
Environmentrequires? teamwork? planning?
up-to-date knowledge of best practice(not a
crystal ball!)
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A review of the last seminarCritical Factors!

• Space
• Storage
• Housekeeping
• Facility design
• Inventory control
• Content Preparation

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Planning for Success

• - The facilities must match the curriculum.
• - The activities must be appropriate to the
  facilities.
• - The entire school teamteachers,
  administrators, special needs staff, and
  non-instructional personnelmust work together to
  make safety a priority.

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Research Shows that Space Is the 1 Factor in
accidents ? Administrators must realize their
obligations. ? Teachers must modify while they
wait for help.
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You must only store the minimum of what you need,
and only in the most appropriate storage
facilities
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Poll Question
Where are your chemicals stored?
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Inventory Control

• Keep only what you need
• Keep MSDS on everything you have
• Neither a borrower nor a lender be
• Use only bonded, reputable disposal firms.

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Housekeeping Is a Major Safety Factor
Slide and research from Dr. Sandra West Moody
sw04_at_txstate.edu

• - Failure to keep a clean classroom can be a
  serious safety hazard.
• - The paths to your safety equipment must be
  clear.
• - Storing too much is a great fire hazard.
• - If you dont need it, give it away or dispose
  of it (properly).

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It Takes a Whole Village to Keep a Science
Classroom Safe

• - Teachers are content and safety experts
• - Information must be shared with all
  non-instructional staff
• - Administration must see safety as a shared
  responsibility and first priority.
• Dont forget liability is shared too Bush v
  Oscoda Area Schools '81MI (250 N.W. 2nd 268,
  1979)

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Safety for All includes? Full (immediate)
inclusion for all students ? A special set of
eyes for barriers ? Shared responsibility with
special staffs
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Is this room appropriate for all students? Trace
the path the wheelchair will go to get to the
safety shower.
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Every science room needs ? hot and cold water
? Eye wash ? fire protection ? good ventilation
None of these are useful if they arent
maintained.
Its not enough to just have them there, what
else?
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Which of these fires might happen in your
classroom?
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Safe Environments Include After-School Staff

• Every classroom needs biohazard disposal
• This can include slides, broken glass, used
  tissues, cultures, etc.
• These special disposal containers can be made
  from milk containers.

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You can make your own containers
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Security Is a Vital Priority

• Storerooms should have dedicated keying systems
  (preferably electronic.)
• Make sure that former staff members and
  substitutes do not have keys.
• No students in storeroomsever!

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Poll Question
What should be done after discovering a condition
that affects the safety of an activity or
activities?
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Standard (Universal) Precautions are for
everyoneEvery practiceshould be
conductedunder the assumptionthat a pathogen
could be present.All staff should haveregular
training.
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In every classroom, we have an obligation to
minimize contagion.

• Warm water and soap, plus lessons in hand washing
• No activities that create contagion risks
• Never import pathogens into a classroom

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Keep Up With Your Field Biology

• In biology, that means no cell or tissue labs, no
  blood labs, no mold or bacterial cultures (unless
  the students are very skilled and the culture
  vessels are securely sealed!)

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Keeping Up with Your Field Chemistry

• Microchemistry activities minimize risk,
  supplies, and disposal costs.
• No explosionsunder any circumstances, with any
  equipment.
• Never bring stock bottles into classrooms.

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Keeping Up with Your Field Earth Science

• Use only appropriate tools (No air tools, power
  saws without specific training)
• Watch for polluted soils
• Watch for asbestos
• Eye protection for
• shattering objects

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Contact Lenses?

• The issue of contact lenses is one where
  experts sometimes disagree.
• Contact lenses can be protected from splash by
  goggles, but may absorb fumes.
• If an activity generates fumes, consider whether
  you need to do it!

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Whats Legal? Safety

• Its perfectly legal to ask students to dress
  professionally in science labs
• No hanging clothing
• No unprotected piercing.
• Shoes
• Tied back hair

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Wanted Sick or well?

• Gerbils have been shown to be the vector for
  giardia, salmonella and E. coli in children.
• Guinea pigs and rabbits have persistent dander.
• Watch for common allergens
• Carpets
• Molds
• Latex gloves
• Peanuts

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Keeping Up with Technology

• Make sure that the appropriate electrical
  connections are present
• Dont improvise
• Have GFIs and safety shutoffs.

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Types of Negligence

• Malfeasance
• Doing that which should not have been done
• Misfeasance
• Improper performance of a lawful act
• Nonfeasance
• Failure to do what should be done

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Live Long and Prosper

• Document your precautions
• You are responsible for your assistants
• Maintain classroomsecurity
• Watch the Internet
• Be mindful of good
• health practices.

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How do you live long and prosper?

• Document your own training (beginning today)
• Document your directions to class (and who
  received them)
• Document the modifications you make due to your
  facilities.

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Methods to Support your Community

• Arrange a web seminar or online course for all
  the stakeholders in your school
  communityincluding the facilities staff and
  administration
• Provide the best new literature including that
  from NSTA

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• National Conference on Science Education,
  Anaheim, CA
• NSTA Symposia
• NASA Stars, Planets, Life and the Universe
• NASA Preparing for the Journey to Space Energy
• NOAA Coral Ecosystems
• NSTA Press Energy Stop Faking It!
• NSTA Press Uncovering Student Ideas in Science

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NSTA Web Seminar Evaluation
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• Upcoming NSTA Web Seminars
• Returning April-June
• 10 new Web Seminars
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• 630 PM Eastern Time